Re: Accessing Windows application from Web application?
- From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:23:04 +0100
<its_faiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:06a5c999-21ad-4322-8f2e-745811e36449@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can the web application call other Windows/Desktop applications
whether these are installed on either server or client side?
A web app can call installed apps on the webserver but, of course, they will run on the webserver. If they require user interaction, there will be no-one there to respond to dialogs etc which can cause the web app to hang.
As you correctly state, for reasons of security a web application cannot (by default) access anything (hardware or software) on the client machine directly. This is by design. All modern browsers are written specifically to prevent this. (There are certain exceptions e.g. cookies which can write to the client machine without user intervention.)
If that is true, what are other alternates to this?
There are certain things you can do involving ActiveX, but I don't recommend them as they will force you to ramp the browser security right down, and will restrict any solution to IE.
Also, it's important to remember that a web browser / application is not a panacea. There are certain tasks for which a web browser is totally unsuited and, it seems to me at least, a Windows Desktop Shell is a great example of one...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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